Reward and Benefits Manager

At Carter Jonas we're seeking a strategic and commercially minded Reward & Benefits Manager based in our Peterborough Office.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a key role within our People & Performance Team, driving reward transformation, enhancing employee experience, and ensuring our reward framework supports long‑term business success.

We are proud to offer a wonderful working culture, a competitive salary and good annual leave offering, coupled with meaningful flexible benefits including salary sacrifice Electric car scheme, holiday purchase of up to 5 extra days, health cash plans, hybrid working, cycle‑to‑work scheme.

Working within a Partnership is something truly special, offering a level of collaboration, shared success, and long‑term commitment that sets it apart from more traditional corporate structures.

In addition, we welcome applications from those seeking flexible or agile working arrangements.

As Reward & Benefits Manager, you will:

• Lead the development and implementation of our reward strategy and roadmap.
• Drive reward transformation initiatives, including job architecture, career frameworks, pay structures and governance.
• Oversee annual salary reviews, bonus and incentive programmes, market benchmarking and pay equity analysis.
• Design and deliver competitive reward and benefits packages that support attraction, retention and performance.
• Lead our benefits and wellbeing strategy, ensuring a compelling and inclusive employee offering.
• Champion the use of technology, automation and data‑driven decision‑making across reward processes.
• Implement and optimise reward, compensation and people technology platforms.
• Ensure reward governance, compliance and reporting meet legislative and best practice standards.
• Manage pay gap reporting and reward‑related policies and controls.
• Build strong relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders across the business.
• Provide insightful analysis and commercial advice to support strategic decision‑making.

• Significant experience in Reward & Benefits management, ideally within a professional services or partnership environment.
• Experience implementing job/ pay architecture or career framework projects. Development of reward scheme design and benchmarking to balance costs, drive engagement and enable performance
• Proven track record of leading reward strategy, transformation and change programmes. Able to influence leadership and outline a compelling business case
• Experience implementing reward planning, compensation or people technology solutions.
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills. Able to convey the insights and story behind the data for a non‑technical audience
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing abilities.
• Strong IT skills and attention to detail.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organisational and time management capabilities.
• A collaborative team player with a customer‑focused approach.

• Experience supporting Partner remuneration frameworks
• Job Evaluation experience/credential e.g. Hay/Radford / Mercer / Pay Scale or similar
• Good understanding of Salary Sacrifice, Benefits Providers and Platforms
• Experience with HRIS, compensation planning or people analytics platforms.
• Professional reward or benefits qualifications / CIPD

This is a fantastic opportunity to lead and shape a modern reward function, influence senior leadership decisions, and help build an engaging, high‑performing workplace where people can thrive.

Ready to make an impact? We'd love to hear from you. Apply today and help us create a reward strategy that drives success for our people and our business.